Vanessa Schroeder

Vanessa Schroeder works as a Senior Faculty Research Assistant I for Oregon State University’s Extension Service, specializing in rangeland ecology to support wildlife habitat. She holds a masters degree in Wildlife Science from OSU. Her applied research and extension projects fall under three themes 1. Evaluating the effects of land management practices on sagebrush-obligate avian species and habitat, 2. Sagebrush steppe management and education, 3. Developing management solutions for degraded or threatened sage-steppe habitat. Her current work with SageSTEP involves assessing prescribe fire and vegetation influences on songbird nest survival along the sagebrush-woodland ecotone and helping with new research using camera and acoustic data along with machine learning to remotely monitor wildlife species across the SageSTEP network.